Hello guys and gals, My name is Jay, I’ve been a member for a short while, just reading the many post and trying to find info, I have a 12 gal nano tank, that crashed after 8 months of been setup, I’ve had it now for about 2 years with little success after it all failed. Long story short, we went away for 2 days last summer when I came back, all except a clown fish was dead, what had happened was my home was closed and that weekend the temp got real hot that both reef and a fresh water tanks I’m guessing all boiled To death. The fishes in the nano all dies which caused a breakdown of some of the anemones which killed everything. After that it was never the same, anything I’d put in there wouldn’t last longer than a week or so, the water was never right. Then one day the live rocks started with green hairy algae, it got so bad that everything was getting covered I tried cleaning it off with different products, I even pulled all the rock and sort of scrubbed them clean. It looked as it was working but after a week it started to grow back. I started to get very disappointed and just left it like that the only things in there were a couple snails, crabs and some Polyps, it got so bad that everything was covered even the glass, it stayed like that for almost a month untouched. one day I noticed that all the algae was gone the water looked clean and things looked normal, so I did a 3gal water change and cleaned the sponges ,the crabs looked bigger and the snails were working and then the Polyps started opening up, Not sure what really happened but now I’m not making it a reef tank but a fish tank ,only because it has been without fishes for over a year, I now have a clown and another fish, it’s been a week and it all still looks great, any advice would be appreciated thanks I’ll try attaching a picture.
PS.how do you attach a picture?
here is a link to my website to see pictures
http://www.wirelesspot.org/nanotank.htm
PS.how do you attach a picture?
here is a link to my website to see pictures
http://www.wirelesspot.org/nanotank.htm
I'm glad you are still in the hobby and posted!
